[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 8465-8466]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 MAY 14
     9:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the United States National Guard 
           and Reserve.
                                                            SD-192
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine responding to the global food 
           crisis.
                                                            SD-419
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine United States credit crisis, 
           focusing on how the federal government can prevent 
           unnecessary systemic risk in the future.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine plastic additives in consumer 
           products.
                                                            SR-253
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Paul A. 
           Schneider, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of 
           Homeland Security.
                                                            SD-342
     10:30 a.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine the future of Alzheimer's 
           disease, focusing on current breakthroughs and 
           challenges.
                                                            SD-106
     2:30 p.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Children and Families Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine addressing the challenge of 
           children with food allergies.
                                                            SD-430
     3 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the National 
           Archives, focusing on protecting our nation's history 
           for future generations.
                                                            SD-342
       Appropriations
       Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the Federal Trade Commission.
                                                            SD-192


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                                 MAY 15
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1080, to develop a program 
           to acquire interests in land from eligible individuals 
           within the Crow Reservation in the State of Montana, 
           H.R. 2120, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
           proclaim as reservation for the benefit of the Sault 
           Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians a parcel of land 
           now held in trust by the United States for that Indian 
           tribe, S. 2494, to provide for equitable compensation 
           to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane 
           Reservation for the use of tribal land for the 
           production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, H.R. 
           2963, to transfer certain land in Riverside County, 
           California, and San Diego County, California, from the 
           Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be 
           held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission 
           Indians, and S. 531, to repeal section 10(f) of Public 
           Law 93-531, commonly known as the ``Bennett Freeze''.
                                                            SD-562
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to consider H.R. 634, to require the 
           Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
           commemoration of veterans who became disabled for life 
           while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, 
           S. 1100, to address the regulation of secondary 
           mortgage market enterprises, and an original bill to 
           make technical corrections to Title III of SAFETEA-LU.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SR-253
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing 
           on providing medical care and meeting basic needs in an 
           aftermath.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2913, to provide a 
           limitation on judicial remedies in copyright 
           infringement cases involving orphan works, S. 2511, to 
           amend the grant program for law enforcement armor vests 
           to provide for a waiver of or reduction in the matching 
           funds requirement in the case of fiscal hardship, S. 
           2565, to establish an awards mechanism to honor 
           exceptional acts of bravery in the line of duty by 
           Federal law enforcement officers, H.R. 4056, to 
           establish an awards mechanism to honor Federal law 
           enforcement officers injured in the line of duty, S. 
           2774, to provide for the appointment of additional 
           Federal circuit and district judges, S. 1738, to 
           establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation 
           Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the 
           Deputy Attorney General, to improve the Internet Crimes 
           Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for 
           regional computer forensic labs, and to make other 
           improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement 
           agencies to investigate and prosecute predators, S. 
           2756, to amend the National Child Protection Act of 
           1993 to establish a permanent background check system, 
           S. 1515, to establish a domestic violence volunteer 
           attorney network to represent domestic violence 
           victims, S. 2942, to authorize funding for the National 
           Advocacy Center, S. 2982, to amend the Runaway and 
           Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations, and the 
           nomination of G. Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United 
           States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Appropriations
         Business meeting to markup the Emergency Supplemental 
           Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2008.
                                                            SD-106
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine United States-China relations 
           in the era of globalization.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the organizational structures 
           of the State Department responsible for arms control, 
           counterproliferation, and nonproliferation, focusing on 
           the processes they have in place for optimizing 
           national efforts, and how responsive those structures 
           and processes are to the Executive Branch's 
           nonproliferation and counterproliferation polices.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
         Business meeting to consider pending military 
           nominations.
                                                            SR-222
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine development of oil shale 
           resources.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 20
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the Territorial Energy 
           Assessment as updated pursuant to the Energy Policy Act 
           of 2005 (Public Law 109-58).
                                                            SD-366
     10:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine financial speculation in 
           commodity markets, focusing on institutional investors 
           and hedge funds contributing to food and energy price 
           inflation.
                                                            SD-342

                                 MAY 21
     9:15 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine treaty Between the Government 
           of the United States of America and the Government of 
           the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
           Ireland Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at 
           Washington and London on June 21 and 26, 2007 (Treaty 
           Doc. 110-07), and treaty Between the Government of the 
           United States of America and the Government of 
           Australia Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at 
           Sydney, September 5, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-10).
                                                            SD-419
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine pending health care 
           legislation.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the skyrocketing price of 
           oil.
                                                            SD-226

                                 JUNE 3
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the acquisition of major 
           weapons systems by the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-106

                                 JUNE 4
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine veterans 
           disability compensation, focusing on undue delay in 
           claims processing.
                                                            SR-418

                                 JUNE 5
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine off-highway vehicle 
           management on public lands.
                                                            SD-366

                                JUNE 26
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         Business meeting to markup pending calendar business.
                                                            SR-418

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                                 MAY 15
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine access to 
           contract health services in Indian country.
                                                            SD-562
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the condition of our nation's 
           infrastructure, focusing on perspectives from our 
           nation's mayors.
                                                            SD-538
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219